Recent Kepler Results On Circumbinary Planets
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2015-06-17 v1
Abstract
Ranked near the top of the long list of exciting discoveries made with NASA's Kepler photometer is the detection of transiting circumbinary planets. In just over a year the number of such planets went from zero to seven, including a multi-planet system with one of the planets in the habitable zone (Kepler-47). We are quickly learning to better detect and characterize these planets, including the recognition of their transit timing and duration variation "smoking gun" signature. Even with only a handful of such planets, some exciting trends are emerging.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.6328,
title = {Recent Kepler Results On Circumbinary Planets},
author = {William F. Welsh and Jerome A. Orosz and Joshua A. Carter and Daniel C. Fabrycky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6328},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in "The Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets", Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 293, Ed. Nader Haghighipour; 8 pages 4 figures